INDIA: Communists in Office

India's Communists won their first major
electoral victory in the steaming southwestern Indian state of Kerala
last March, but few politicians in New Delhi were inclined at the time
to take the matter seriously. The Communists were behaving so
correctly, and besides, as required by law they were careful to get the
approval of New Delhi for most of the changes they wanted to make. Soon
Britain's Manchester Guardian, reflecting the bemused judgments of
Indian intellectuals, was talking euphorically of "constitutional
Communism" in Kerala.

"Something for Everyone." Working ostentatiously within the legal limits
of the Indian constitution, Kerala's Communist bosses...